Map of Things Past
Vulture, New York Magazine
‘The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition’ Review: A Borough’s Blazing Creativity
Ruttkowski;68 and Rail Curatorial Projects is proud to present the tenth installment of Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, a multi-venue series of exhibitions that began in 2022.
Singing in Unison, Part 10 presents a selection of paintings by Loren Munk and videos by James Kalm, the dual creations of one artist. Born in 1951, Munk spent three years in the army, before attending the Art Students League on the G.I. Bill, leading to his complete dedication to being an artist. Munk’s cartographic research began during his time working deliveries for the art supply store Utrecht, where he amassed a database of names and addresses of artists and their studios. His diagrammatic thinking in his paintings, which he refers as “conceptual topographies,” has deep roots in immersive studies of art history, art theory, and esoteric philosophies…
What is a Brooklyn Artist?
Vulture, New York Magazine
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum
The New York Times Style Magazine
2023 Art Issue
By Antonis Antoniou and Stephen Heller
David Rumsey Map Collection
Book Covers
Thomas Micchelli, essay for an exhibition at the Schneider Museum of Art
By Vickie Aldous, Mail Tribune
by Raphael Rubinstein, Art in America
by Raphael Rubinstein, catalog essay
by James Panero, BAKU
By Ben La Rocco, Hyperallergic
By Jed Lipinski, The New York Times
By Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine
By James Panero, City Journal
By Roberta Smith, The New York Times
By Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic
By James Panero, The New Criterion
By Carolina A. Miranda, Art News
By Thomas S. Mulligan, Los Angeles Times
By Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
By Hrag Vartanian, art:21
By Steve Aishman
By Abraham Orden, artnet
By Jonathan T. D. Neil, Artworld Salon
By R.C. Baker, The Village Voice
Selected Bibliography/Filmography
“The Irascibles an exhibition that almost didn’t take place” A Documentation of an exhibition closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, at the Fundación Juan March, written and directed by Adriano Morán and Javier Álvarez. Produced by the Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain December 2020, https://www.march.es/videos/?p0=11995
“Artists in NYC” Documentary produced by Sanja Frank and Terence Donnellan Directed by Terence Donnellan and released spring 2019. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/artistsinnyc?autoplay=1&fbclid=IwAR39sJI8mIBIR3vtV18ln4jfpulCvhAi56bQLDggJT_d7tMPGNwD-M_Wrn8
“Living For Art” Documentary directed by Sookoon Ang with Angeline Swee, as consulting producer. Released spring 2019 https://www.sookoonang.com/livingforart
Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art by Triza True Latimer (2017), p.12
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520288867
Teaching Painting: How Can Painting Be Taught In Art Schools Edited by Ian Hartshorne, Donald Moloney and Mangus Quaife (2017). "Condensed Knowledge" by Daniel Sturgis p.15 https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Painting-How-Taught-Schools/dp/1911164104
You are Here: Mapping the soul of the City by Katharine Harmon (2016), reproductions p. 164-165, and 191.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Here-Mapping-Soul/dp/1616895268
St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lilves of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun(2016) p.370 note 223.
https://www.amazon.com/St-Marks-Dead-Americas-Hippest/dp/039324038X
Bant Magazine Cover Feature interview with Yetkin Nural May 7, 2014
https://bantmag.com/arsivden-loren-munk-ve-lojistik-sanati/
"10 Amazing Data Visualizations of Creativity and Art History" Feb 20, 2014 ARTNEWS.COM by Robin Cembalest 2013
http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/20/artists-data-visualizations-of-creativity-and-art-history/
Sculpture, December, 2007, “Newark Between Us”, by Gae Savannah, p. 71
d’art International #21 Fall 2007, “The James Kalm Report: The Artworld Interventions of Loren Munk”, by Christopher Hart Chambers, p. 22, color illustration
FROM THE MAYOR'S DOOR STEP, Piri Halasz, No. 44,15 Jan 2003
NY ARTS MAGAZINE, May 2002 .Chambers, Christopher, "Picks"
BERLINER ZEITUNG, 21/9/01, p.15
0 ESTADO DE S.PAULO Viegas, Camila, "Cores vibrantes usadas por Munk establecem dialogo com olhar",22/4/984)4
0 ESTADO DE S. PAULO, Giobbi, Cesar, "Persona", 24/4/98.D6, 26/4/98, D7
NY ARTS MAGAZINE, #14, October, 1997,Chambers, Christopher, "Picks",
SOUTH FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS, Arnold Simon,"ArtCetera", November 14,1996
THE NEWS, Skip Sheffield, November 15,1996
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART 1995-96,21st Edition, R.R. Bowker, Publisher
BROOKLYN BRIDGE, Hank Schlesinger, 'Painting the Town', December, 1995, pp 27,28
CELEBRATING THE AMERICAN VERNACULAR, 1994, essay by Robert Morgan
THE IDAHO STATE JOURNAL, 'Guy from Idaho filters urban scene...',Sunday,August 15,1993, pp. A1, E1, E2
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, Nr. 149/Seite 13,1,juli 1992
ARTENSION, No. 22, March 1991, p. 63
L'EXPRESS PARIS, M1722-2068 du 27 Fevrier 1991, pp. 33, 35
THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, Slivka, Rose C.S., "From the studio', September 6,1990
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Braff, Phyllis, "Collector's Diversified Choices,' September 9,1990
ARTNEWS, Moorman, Margaret, "Diverse Expressionists", November 1988, p. 188
DOWNTOWN, Furstenberg, Marc, "My Beat SoHo: Loren Munk", March 18,1987
ART/WORLD, Matthew, Ray, Vol. 2, No. 4, January 15 - February 15,1987
EDITIONS ARCA, Marseille, Westfall, Stephen, "Itineraire Dans la Ville", Catalogue Essay
PRINT COLLECTOR'S NEWSLETTER, Vol. XVII, No. 2, June-May 1986
ARTNEWS, Cecil, Sarah, Vol. 85, No. 2, February 1986
ARTS Magazine, Westfall, Stephen, Vol. 60, No. 6, February 1986
EDITIONS ARCA, Marseille, Pleynit, Marcelin, "New York/New Arf, Catalogue Essay
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, Gibson, Michael, "Four Excellent Shows in Southern France", 8/10/85
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Glueck, Grace, "Today the frame May be a Part of the Picture', March 3,1985
ARTE FACTUM, Bellido, Ramon Tio, V. 5,1984